confound

CONFOUND, verb transitive [Latin , to pour out. Literally, to pour or throw together.] 1. To mingle and blend different things, so that their forms or natures cannot be distinguished; to mix in a mass or crowd, so that individuals cannot be distinguished. 2. To throw into disorder. Let us go down, and there confound their language. Genesis 11:7. 3. To mix or blend, so as to occasion a mistake of one thing for another. A fluid body and a wetting liquor, because they agree in many things, are wont to be confounded. Men may confound ideas with words. 4. To perplex; to disturb the apprehension by indistinctness of ideas or words. Men may confound each other by unintelligible terms or wrong application of words. 5. To abash; to throw the mind into disorder; to cast down; to make ashamed. Be thou confounde and ber thy shame. Ezekiel 16:52. Saul confounded the Jews at Damascus. Acts 9:22. 6. To perplex with terror; to terrify; to dismay; to astonish; to throw into consternation; to stupify with amazement. So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood a while as mute confounded what to say. The multitude came together and were confounded. Acts 2:6. 7. To destroy; to overthrow. So deep a malice to confound the race of mankind in one root.